--- title: Hurry past, as if you neither saw nor heard them; but you shall go t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Hurry past, as if you neither saw nor heard them; but you shall go to the third and do what she bids you; it will bring you good fortune.’ Who acts: you, first, same. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, first, same), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:26:16 # text = Hurry past, as if you neither saw nor heard them; but you shall go to the third and do what she bids you; it will bring you good fortune.’ 1 Hurry hurry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 past past ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 8 cc:preconj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 9 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 10 cc _ _ 10 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 24 obj _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 bids bid VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurry** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **hear** | past | you *not said here* | princesses *= princess* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** | shall | you | | | the third | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to third=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **do** | present | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bid** | present | first | you | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **bring** | future | same | good fortune | you | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination fortune=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/26/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/26/17/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princesses of Whiteland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/26/)